Thursday, February 11, 2016

Did you really like it so much that you always wanted to make it yourself ?

This is my first working practical wind turbine. I really love green projects and renewable energy stuff. Last year I 've made a small modification on an old PC fan to convert it into a small wind turbine. It had enough output power to light an LED. It was a huge project for me at that time because I 've always wanted to much to get even little power form wind.

The huge number of people on instructables who successfully built different sizes and shapes of practically working wind turbines has motivated me to build my own next level wind turbine to have higher scale of power output.

Use the sand paper in cdrom center to make the plastic tube fit into it.

Put CDroms and DVDs around the plastic pipe and motor shaft.

Step 5: Blades Assembly :

I wanted to cut the turbine blades into the usual turbine blades shape.

I really liked the idea of using PVC pipe as a fan blade. I got this idea from the internet.

But when I got the old PVC pipe I stated by drawing the fan blade on a template to draw it on the PVC pipe.

Then I couldn't get the tools to cut pipe in the fine shape of the fan blade.

So I've chosen to make the easy way and cut the PVC pipe into straight three equal pieces.

But how are these pieces going to generate rotational motion from the wind.

I decided to install each blade on the hub so it becomes nearly
perpendicular to the hub and the round shape of the pipe does the rest.

Step 6: Turbine Assembly :

I installed the hub around the motor and secured them together using the fax paper plastic tube.Then I cut the extra piece of plastic from the small plastic tube.I drilled the metallic tube to install screws to fix the two tubes together.I installed the turbine with its pole on the roof of my apartment.It really rotates when the wind is fairly blowing.

TO DO :I 'll make a battery charging circuit and connect a sealed Lead-Acid battery to make a steady supply power source.

I posted this project on the DIY website instructables.comThe post got featured on the website and in the weekly news letter.I 've participated at the Leftovers Contest on the website and got a runner prize.

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